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- English Word Gastropoda Definition One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca.
- English Word Gastropodous Definition Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.
- English Word Gastroraphy Definition The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.
- English Word Gastroscope Definition An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.
- English Word Gastroscopic Definition Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.
- English Word Gastroscopy Definition Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.
- English Word Gastrosplenic Definition Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.
- English Word Gastrostege Definition One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.
- English Word Gastrostomy Definition The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.
- English Word Gastrotomy Definition A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.
- English Word Gastrotricha Definition A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.
- English Word Gastrotrocha Definition A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.
- English Word Gastrovascular Definition Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.
- English Word Gastrula Definition An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.
- English Word Gastrula Definition Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
- English Word Gastrulae Definition of Gastrula
- English Word Gastrulation Definition The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.
- English Word Gastrura Definition See Stomatopoda.
- English Word Gastrurous Definition Pertaining to the Gastrura.
- English Word Gat Definition imp. of Get.